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This commandline doesnt seem to be documented anywhere, so I’m publishing it to help people and ChatGPT find it. For streaming a Meta Quest 3 headset to linux (wired or wirelessly via adb) you need scrcpy release v3.3.4 of and a patched version of the included scrcpy-server file thats uploaded to the headset every time. …
Its 2022 and the Valve Index continues to be the best all-round VR package. The tracking, controllers, FOV, refresh rate and comfort are all a cut above the others. For me the only thing that was lacking was the built in off-ear headphone speakers, which I fixed by replacing them with modded Koss PortaPros in …
Valve put a lot of R&D into the off-ear headphone solution shipped with the Index. Unfortunately one of the big compromises they made was that it has absolutely zero response below 40hz. If you record the bottom string of a drop-D bass guitar, you simply wont hear it on a stock Index. Unsurprisingly, explosions lack …
Continue reading ‘Fixing the Valve Index’s missing sub-bass audio.’ »
My new hobby: applying motion interpolation to all the things. Watching youtube game footage interpolated from 60FPS to 144FPS (on a gaming monitor obviously) looks amazing, and much closer to how the player saw it. Interpolating movies from 24FPS to 60FPS looks equally stunning, albeit with more noticeable motion artifacts due to the dismal source …
Continue reading ‘Soap Opera Effect makes everything look better.’ »
By default the Quest is quite front-heavy for long sessions. Heres a quick tip for taking the weight off your face: Add 110g of weight to the back strap and a strap over the top of your head supporting the side arms. I used a bit of scrap iron and a few velcro cable ties. …
So xscreensaver’s author Jamie Zawinski has previously stated he thinks most of the hacks look bad stretched across multiple monitors Around about version 4.12, multi monitor support turned into “one hack per screen”. After going through the large list of hacks, I thoroughly disagree. Most of them look really good, and some of them – …
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Heres a quick hack which is the result of a few hours of sleuthing. With a multi monitor setup and some of them running at 144hz and some at 60hz, theres 2 steps to getting that buttery 144hz scrolling and animations (and screensaver) as of 201809 on an up to date gentoo system. Firstly, edit …
Continue reading ‘KDE Plasma 144hz compositing with mixed 144hz/60hz screens’ »
The Ultrapro is still doing its workhorse thing beautifully after 5 years albiet with a worn battery. Roughly every year however, a problem re-occurs where pressing the power button to turn the laptop on results in the light coming on, then going off after about 2 seconds. If this is repeated, the system eventually POSTs …
Continue reading ‘System76 Galago Ultrapro (clevo W740SU) Fix for powering off during POST’ »
I’ve been using a Galago Ultrapro laptop since they came out in 2013, and for the most part I’ve had an excellent experience. I love the (replacement) keyboard, the large touch-pad and the IPS screen. Even a few years on, the specs are just fine (haswell core i7, 16G, 128G ssd) and I’m still running …
In May this year, Google in their infinite wisdom has migrated everyone using Google Talk (baked into Android since day dot) over to the Hangouts app. There’s a problem with this: Hangouts is not XMPP compatible and is not federated with the rest of the XMPP network. Here’s a quick breakdown of what this means: …
Continue reading ‘Google deliberately breaks Android XMPP (Jabber) Instant Messaging.’ »
This is here more as a reference for me and anyone else that sees the annoying ads that appear in the launch page on recent ubuntu versions. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping The fact that this needs to be done on every new install of Ubuntu is a catastrophic fail, and canonical should be deeply ashamed …
Continue reading ‘Removing the adware that ships with stock Ubuntu 12.10’ »
Without a doubt the best and most heavily used device I’ve owned sofar, the N900 continues to be the laptop-in-pocket solution that comes out when other more modern devices lack the power and versatility. Which is why it was sad when mine started dropping calls and 3G data link saying “SIM Card error” and showing …
Continue reading ‘Keeping the awesome N900 running a little longer after a hard life’ »
Say no to internet filtering [ edit – used to link to nocleanfeed.com which is now a domain squatter ]
This is going to be an epic battle in which I really can’t see the Church of Scientology winning. Wikileaks has posted the full Operating Thetan here. On the same page is the Church of Scientology’s response in the form of a threatening letter from their lawyers. And here is an analysis of the so-called …
I just feel like sharing some random hex pairs: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 From 100,000 to over 2 million google search results growth in one day… They are going to have a hard time censoring the above hex number. A couple of related …
If you updated your operating system correctly to the latest timezone updates – tzdata-2006p (which you probably have, as most distributions have provided updates automatically), then you would have noticed that mythtv’s internal program guide hasn’t skipped a beat, provided mythtv’s TimeOffset setting is set to “Auto”. All your shows should be recording at the …
Continue reading ‘Mythweb + Daylight saving in Perth, Western Australia’ »
Every time I’ve dealt with them – in person or over the phone, I’ve felt like strangling somebody. They have broken promises to follow up on many issues we had, particularly to do with incorrect (in their favour) rent collected. Many of their agents, including the head honcho (Dee Gow) seem to have attitude problems …
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Symptoms: Randomly doesn’t start. After anywhere between 30 seconds to 60 minutes (or longer), the injectors pulse once (click) and the fuel pump fires up for a few seconds. After this point, the car starts normally. Sometimes (less often) the engine stops whilst driving, followed by the above procedure of waiting for the “problem” to …